had plenty of creepers, sexual advances, racist truckers telling me their dog will bite if i'm not careful and what not, but my absolute worst two would be between a cat car and a russian orthodox man out of delta.
i've only twice had an odor make me physically gag and worried i'd throw up. one was through a slaughter house region in idaho, but even worse was a cat car ride heading to eugene. the car was littered with kfc and mcd's trash, pounds and pounds worth, soaking with the fluids of two (that i saw) cats in the car. the instant i opened the door i was knocked with piss and ammonia, but i've never turned down a ride and i'd been standing in the cold rain trying to keep a smile for long enough. i sat in a seat of damp burger wrappers and cracked down the window, but the guy kept rolling it back up. i don't know if he didn't want rain getting in, was just fucking with me, knowing how disgusting it was, or what. more than having to deal with it i was worried i'd be soaking up the smell and get kicked out of my next ride. luckily he was only going another 25 or 30 miles and i didn't have to cut it. he offered to get me food, but i couldn't do anymore.
out of delta jct. my partner and i got picked up by a russian orthodox pastor who was as harmless as could be but became outrageously akward. he was super cute and told us in super broken english alot of crazy stories from siberia/russia, but for the last hour and a half or so of the ride he began talking about how we were sinners because him and his wife would only shake hands for a brief second when they were "courting." he kept trying to get us to pray for forgiveness, which was just not mufuckin happening, so he eventually just prayed for us. forever. he began balling, uncontrollably weeping as he prayed, swerving around the highway, jibbering, drooling a bit, (talking in tongues maybe). it was seemed to never end we just sat there in his balls hot minivan stunned at what this man had turned into, praying only for it to be over.